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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 8458689" data-attributes="member: 15700"><p>For example, here is what would appear for the Myling (ignore the formatting). It's...pretty grim and can be quite triggering for survivors of child abuse. </p><p></p><p><strong>Myling CR 4</strong> (CONTENT WARNING)</p><p>The lore behind the myling is exceptionally dark. These are ghosts and spirits of unwanted children killed by their parents and not having received proper burial. In certain regions throughout history, parents have committed infanticide for a number of reasons, not all of them necessarily rooted in evil. While many of them certainly were for evil reasons, oftentimes the parents were desperate with no other options before them, and had to make a choice to kill their own children, or to have the entire family starve. Or the mother was forced to kill the child by someone in a position of power. It sounds horrific today, and certainly is, but in some areas during certain parts of history, there were no alternatives or preventive measures available to mothers.</p><p></p><p>Mylings appear as ghostly images of children in great anguish, ranging in age from toddlers to preteens.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Lore & Rumors</strong></p><p></p><p>10 A ghost of a child is a myling, a poor creature who was killed by their mother, wailing at night until it can be put to rest.</p><p></p><p>15 The myling will attempt to possess a person, driving them to find their bones and perform the burial.</p><p></p><p>20 if you refuse the plight of a myling, it will attack you in a rage.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Behavior</strong></p><p></p><p>Because they are ghosts, the mylings do not have a complete recollection or memory of their past life. They only know one thing: betrayal and grief. They are desperate to have their bones buried appropriately, and will attempt to possess any creature that it comes across to accomplish this. Those creatures who are able to avoid the possession of a myling will be met with the furious wrath of the spirit.</p><p></p><p>During the night, mylings will wail loudly in despair near the area where it was killed. If a myling is put to rest, it will fade away in peace.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Quirks</strong></p><p></p><p>Mylings can communicate, but in a childlike manner with limited grammar and appropriate vocabulary of the age of child they were when they died.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Habitat</strong></p><p></p><p>Most mylings inhabit populated areas, usually places where the murder and disposal of a body of a child would largely go unnoticed, such as depressed slums, dark woods, or cemeteries.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Incorporation</strong></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The PCs encounter a myling or group of mylings in the slums of a city, attempting to possess them.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">An NPC is possessed by a myling, and after the bones are buried, the PCs discover the myling’s murderer is a well off or influential personality who has been kidnapping children to replace the one she murdered that became the myling.</li> </ul><p>[ATTACH=full]146811[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 8458689, member: 15700"] For example, here is what would appear for the Myling (ignore the formatting). It's...pretty grim and can be quite triggering for survivors of child abuse. [B]Myling CR 4[/B] (CONTENT WARNING) The lore behind the myling is exceptionally dark. These are ghosts and spirits of unwanted children killed by their parents and not having received proper burial. In certain regions throughout history, parents have committed infanticide for a number of reasons, not all of them necessarily rooted in evil. While many of them certainly were for evil reasons, oftentimes the parents were desperate with no other options before them, and had to make a choice to kill their own children, or to have the entire family starve. Or the mother was forced to kill the child by someone in a position of power. It sounds horrific today, and certainly is, but in some areas during certain parts of history, there were no alternatives or preventive measures available to mothers. Mylings appear as ghostly images of children in great anguish, ranging in age from toddlers to preteens. [B]Lore & Rumors[/B] 10 A ghost of a child is a myling, a poor creature who was killed by their mother, wailing at night until it can be put to rest. 15 The myling will attempt to possess a person, driving them to find their bones and perform the burial. 20 if you refuse the plight of a myling, it will attack you in a rage. [B]Behavior[/B] Because they are ghosts, the mylings do not have a complete recollection or memory of their past life. They only know one thing: betrayal and grief. They are desperate to have their bones buried appropriately, and will attempt to possess any creature that it comes across to accomplish this. Those creatures who are able to avoid the possession of a myling will be met with the furious wrath of the spirit. During the night, mylings will wail loudly in despair near the area where it was killed. If a myling is put to rest, it will fade away in peace. [B]Quirks[/B] Mylings can communicate, but in a childlike manner with limited grammar and appropriate vocabulary of the age of child they were when they died. [B]Habitat[/B] Most mylings inhabit populated areas, usually places where the murder and disposal of a body of a child would largely go unnoticed, such as depressed slums, dark woods, or cemeteries. [B]Incorporation[/B] [LIST] [*]The PCs encounter a myling or group of mylings in the slums of a city, attempting to possess them. [*]An NPC is possessed by a myling, and after the bones are buried, the PCs discover the myling’s murderer is a well off or influential personality who has been kidnapping children to replace the one she murdered that became the myling. [/LIST] [ATTACH type="full" alt="1637088314354.png"]146811[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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